How to format your references using the Journal of Computer and System Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Computer and System Sciences. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

[1]

J. Bell, Planetary science. Tip of the Martian iceberg?, Science 297 (2002) 60–61.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

A.J. Smith, B. Schwappach, Cell biology. Think vesicular chloride, Science 328 (2010) 1364–1365.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M.G.L. van den Heuvel, M.P. de Graaff, C. Dekker, Molecular sorting by electrical steering of microtubules in kinesin-coated channels, Science 312 (2006) 910–914.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

M.J. Tildesley, N.J. Savill, D.J. Shaw, R. Deardon, S.P. Brooks, M.E.J. Woolhouse, B.T. Grenfell, M.J. Keeling, Optimal reactive vaccination strategies for a foot-and-mouth outbreak in the UK, Nature 440 (2006) 83–86.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

[1]

D.M. Kim, Introductory Quantum Mechanics for Applied Nanotechnology, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany, 2015.

An edited book

[1]

L. Bolc, R. Tadeusiewicz, L.J. Chmielewski, K. Wojciechowski, eds., Computer Vision and Graphics: International Conference, ICCVG 2010, Warsaw, Poland, September 20-22, 2010, Proceedings, Part II, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A. Guerra-Hernández, G. Ortíz-Hernández, Toward BDI Sapient Agents: Learning Intentionally, in: R.V. Mayorga, L.I. Perlovsky (Eds.), Toward Artificial Sapience: Principles and Methods for Wise Systems, Springer, London, 2008: pp. 77–91.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Journal of Computer and System Sciences.

Blog post

[1]

J. O`Callaghan, Watch Live As Blue Origin Purposefully Destroys Its Historic Rocket Tomorrow, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/space/watch-live-as-blue-origin-purposefully-destroys-its-historic-rocket-tomorrow/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Improvements Needed in General Automated Data Processing Controls at the National Finance Center, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1985.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

S. Diniega, Modeling aeolian dune and dune field evolution, Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona, 2010.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

[1]

J. Koblin, NBC News Revamps Leadership and Focuses Abroad, New York Times (2017) B3.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Computer and System Sciences
Abbreviation	J. Comput. Syst. Sci.
ISSN (print)	0022-0000
Scope	Computational Theory and Mathematics Computer Networks and Communications Applied Mathematics Theoretical Computer Science